Category Archives: Site Announcements

Nearly two years ago, WeddingLovely launched our online planning guide, designed to walk couples through the process of their wedding. Now, we’re pleased to announce the 2.0 release of the planning guide — completely rewritten and redesigned — as well as a partnership with the best wedding website and wedding app company, Appy Couple.

We originally launched with native hosted wedding websites, but wedding planning and wedding vendors has always been our main focus. We’re sunsetting the wedding website feature for all new WeddingLovely customers, and instead offering a payment option which includes a free Appy Couple wedding app account.

As a result, WeddingLovely’s prices are dropping to either a $35 one-time payment for the wedding planning app, or $70 for the combined WeddingLovely + Appy Couple account.

In addition to the design, WeddingLovely’s planning guide has added several new features:

I’ve known some of the people behind Exposure.so for awhile now — perhaps you’ve seen some of their beautifulphotonarratives that their product helps you create. Their product is particularly spectacular for wedding vendors showcasing weddings which feature their work.

I’ve managed to negotiate a discount for WeddingLovely vendors and engaged couples who’d like to use Exposure. Try Exposure for free for three posts, and if you’d like to upgrade to a paid plan, click here for 10% off a year plan (valid only for the first year, plans start at $49/year.)

Additionally, vendors on an upgraded WeddingLovely account can get an additional 5% off (so, 15% off) — send me an email for the link for the additional discount!

New year, new prices! Due to our blog readership and social media follower increases, we’re raising the price of our blog advertising — but for a limited time only, we’ll offer ads and sponsored posts at our 2013 prices.

Engaged couples all know that finding vendors can be a tricky process (hey, that’s why we’re in the business!) We just launched a new feature to make a part of the process simpler — service vendors can now add approximate prices to their WeddingLovely vendor profiles.

For engaged couples, this means getting more up-front information about a vendor before taking the time to reach out. Emailing back and forth to find out that a vendor is higher than your price range can be a huge pain. Now you can know a vendor is approximately in your price range before getting a specific quote.

For service vendors (like photographers, planners, officiants, and others), adding your approximate prices will make sure that you’re spending the time with couples that match your price range. Vendors can receive more targeted leads, and spend less time explaining prices by having a baseline price upfront.

This is an optional feature for our service vendors, since we know that some would prefer to keep our current system of $, $$, and $$$. But for those that want to add their basic pricing, we have two options to add — base prices and add-on prices.

Base prices are like a package that couples can choose only one when configuring an approximate quote. Vendors can also add multiple add-on prices (for extras like adding extra shooting hours to a wedding), which couples can choose multiple on the configure quote page. Couples can then submit the approximate quote to the vendor and then get the actual price for their situation.

We’re working on a calendaring feature for vendors so prices can update per season — look for it in early to mid-2014. For vendors who have products (dresses, invitations, favors, etc), we’ll be launching a pricing system for you too soon!

We love our specialized directories (like our first, WeddingInviteLove, and our most recent, WeddingMusicLove) but after launching eight separate specialized directories (whew!) it was time to launch our general all-in-one directory. Our specialized sites are still near and dear to our heart, but now we can support every wedding vendor, no matter what vertical!

For vendors, all listings from our specialized directories are automatically reflected in the new site — no need to do anything else! Interested in joining our vendor network? Join here! (Basic accounts are free, and use VENDORGUIDELAUNCH as a coupon for 20% off for an upgraded account, which is normally $270 — coupon ends 12/31!)

I’m excited about growing the WeddingLovely network of vendors, and continuing to help engaged couples to find the perfect vendors near them. Please let me know what you think in the comments!

It’s fairly easy to find big hotels and properties that are venue weddings due to the size of their marketing budgets — but what if you wanted to book a private estate? Estate Events takes the pain out by working directly with the property owners and listing these amazing estates and private villas directly on their website — and now, on WeddingVenueLove, our wedding venue directory, as well!

Big thanks to Estate Events for the partnership — I’m so pleased to list such beautiful venues!

Head over to WeddingVenueLove.com now to see all the beautiful new venues now.

Just like the rest of our wedding vendor directories, WeddingMusicLove is dedicated to just one vendor category — musicians and DJs. Profiles are free (and will always be!) and we’re looking forward to listing the best wedding musician and DJs worldwide.

I’m so excited for the rest of the year and all the plans I have to grow the WeddingLovely Vendor Network even larger. Hint: I’m working on something so I don’t have to list out all the individual directories anymore! ;)

Brides and grooms visiting WeddingFlowerLove.com can now see instantly who is a part of the premier florist designer group for wedding and events, The Chapel Designers, lead by Holly Chapple! More about the group from Holly’s website:

The Chapel Designers group is another miracle in Holly’s life and one of her favorite “babies.” As Holly was one of the first in her field to utilize social media as a part of her marketing strategy, she had the opportunity to develop close relationships with floral designers worldwide. These designers began to regularly seek out her advice, guidance and moral support. Based on Holly’s ability to deal with a really big family, nurturing and supporting these designers was a natural love for her. It was very clear to Holly that a network of like-minded floral industry professionals needed to be started earning her the name “Flower Mamma.”

Annually, The Chapel Designers gather in NYC to tour the flower markets, have creative & business workshops, and most importantly to collaborate and share new inspiration with each other. These relationships have become invaluable to each of the Chapel Designers as both strong industry relationships and close friendships have been born. Throughout the year the group stays connected through a forum that is built to support one another and the group has also committed to a new standard of excellence when it comes to expanding our horizons, and setting industry standards in wedding and event design.

Seeing the Chapel Designers badge on a florists profile is an instant badge of approval for that florist — you know you’re going to get amazing quality and workmanship.